Technology Tuesday
9/16/2014
FREE IOS APPS FOR ENGAGING STUDENTS
Zip Zap Fractions
Plickers
Puppet Pals HD
Although this app has been around for a while, I wanted to reiterate it's possibilities in the classroom. Puppet Pals HD is a highly regarded animation / storytelling app for iPad, which is suitable for K-8 students, and has a variety of educational applications. To use Puppet Pals, students select characters, settings, and a title; and then narrate a story while animating the characters and props using their fingers. You can create your own backdrops and characters using pictures from your Camera Roll, and export the finished video files to iMovie, YouTube, etc. Download Puppet Pals HD by clicking HERE.
Uses of the App
- Create short instructional videos, digital storytelling, news reports/journalism, historic retells and practice of fluency and language skills.
Common Core Quest
Common Core Quest is a free iPad and iPhone app. The free app gives students access to hundreds of practice quizzes aligned to Common Core standards in math and language arts. Before and after taking a quiz students can watch short video lessons that address the skills needed to master the standards contained in the quizzes. To use Common Core Quest, a student selects his or her grade then selects the math or language arts standards he or she is working toward mastering. download the app for free by clicking HERE.
TOOLS ON THE WEB
Heganoo.com
Heganoo is a tool that allows you to build multimedia placemarks on a map. Your completed map can be displayed in a variety of formats including a slide-by-slide format that allows viewers to see placemark information as slides while viewing the map in the background. Placemarks in your map can include pictures, videos, and text. Check out the sample American Revolution map embedded below.
TeachingHistory.org
ClipConverter
Take all or part of any YouTube video and convert it to a permanent file on your computer for classroom use. No internet connection required to show the video!! Need to show only a section of a Youtube video? With ClipConverter you select what part of the video you want to save.
Must-follow of EdTech Blogs
Shake Up Learning
Talk Tech with Me
Blog by Katie Ritter, Instructional Technology Leader focusing on short tutorials of apps, digital citizenship resources and more. Follow her on twitter @Katie_M_Ritter
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Michael Fowlkes
Arab City Schools
Email: mfowlkes@arabcityschools.org
Website: www.arabcityschools.org
Location: 511 Arabian Drive Northeast, Arab, AL, United States
Phone: 256-931-9321
Twitter: @arabcitytc